Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction: Faulkner, Simms, Page, and Dixon
Description
The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner.
Keywords
MASCULINITY IN LITERATURESHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616_IN LITERATUREAMERICAN FICTION_HISTORY AND CRITICISM
2008Book
Author(s)Joseph B. Keener
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230603202
LanguageEnglish
